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On 22/12/2014 16:23, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-12-21, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> In article <54974ed7$0$12986$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>>   Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use,
>>> except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code
>>> for production use.
>>
>> Heh.  I once worked on a C++ project that included its own crypo code
>> (i.e. custom implementations of things like AES and SHA-1).
>
> Damn.  Should I ever start to do something like that (for a real
> product), I hereby officially request that somebody please try to slap
> some sense into me.
>

I'm having wonderful thoughts of Michael Palin's favourite Python sketch 
which involved fish slapping.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence